Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!nikhefk!paulm
From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Status of MS Word 4.0
Message-ID: <482@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 88 12:21:13 GMT
References: <456@tekn01.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Organization: Personal Computer Magazine, Holland  Host: NIKHEFK
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In article <456@tekn01.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekn01.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes:
#What is the current status of MS Word 4.0?
#It isn't available here in Sweden yet, and I haven't seen any reviews on
#it. There are rumors thar Microsoft has withdrawn the program due to
#excessive bugs. Is this true? It would be interesting if those who has
#had real experience with the program could posr their observations to
#the net, or better to me directly. If there are enough replies, I'll
#summarize them to the net.

Our Dutch Microsoft spokeswoman at first mentioned december as the month
MS-Word 4.0 should hit shelves. The latest word, however, is:
february, march.
This is in fact due to some extra debugging that has to take place.

I've had a pre-release of Word 4.0 which was fairly full of bugs
and immensely slow due to the fact the all their P-Machine debugging
code was still in the program. MS-Word 4.0 will, or so it seems, still
be running on a P-Code interpreter. I wonder how they will speed up
the program compared to Word 3.0x (which was interpreted P-Code as well).

#	Thanks.
Most welcome.
#
        Paul Molenaar

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        Paul Molenaar

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